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Creating a win-win

Stress and pain lead to decreased productivity, increased absences, and higher turnover.

Stress can cause many workplace problems, including a fall in productivity, increase in mistakes, increased sick absence, and high staff turnover. Stress is also the number one cause of long-term sickness.Recent studies in the U.K. have shown the two main causes of sickness and absence are stress and muscular-skeletal disorders such as back, neck, and shoulder pain. Both of these main factors are treatable through massage.

Massage has been shown to drastically reduce employee absence and injury.

Massage Therapy is a clinically proven effective treatment for stress and pain relief. Therapeutic massage is increasingly being recommended by doctors and other health care professionals.One study by Tracey Kiernan concludes that because massage is so effective in treating stress and pain, “massage should be a treatment of choice to be included in any comprehensive wellbeing program aimed at reducing absenteeism.”

Why you need this:

According to the Stress Management Society, massage helps to:

Relieve headaches, neck and back ache

Relieve stress and muscular tension

Improve concentration, memory and mental alertness

Increase energy levels to improve productivity

Relieve eyestrain

Reduce migraines

Here are some additional ways massage can help improve a person’s health: